Definitions for lunation

lunation lu·na·tion

Spelling: [loo-ney-shuh n]
IPA: /luˈneɪ ʃən/

Lunation is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 216 anagrams from letters in lunation (ailnnotu).

Definitions for lunation

noun

  1. the period of time from one new moon to the next (about 29½ days); a lunar month.

Origin of lunation

1350-1400; Middle English lunacyon Medieval Latin lūnātiōn- (stem of lūnātiō). See Luna, -ation

Examples for lunation

And there is not the moon seen in all the lunation, save only the second quarter.

lunation is a term sometimes given to the moon's period from any definite phase round to the same phase again.

So that in both these cases fever commenced in half a lunation after the contagion was received.

For, says he, because of the double epact that occurs on the 4th and 5th of April that lunation has only 29 days.

In fact, the year and the lunation are to one another very nearly in the proportion of 235 to 19.

Now that lunation having commenced on the 3rd of December, and consisting of thirty days, will end on the 1st of January.

The number 28 corresponds with the number of days in a lunation.

The fever and eruption in the distinct kind take up another quarter of a lunation, and the maturation another quarter.

And there the moon is not seen in all the lunation, except in the second quarter.

Word Value for lunation
Scrable

8

Words with friends

12

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